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A few random thoughts, from which you can draw conclusions:
seamless paper is cheaper but it's an ongoing expense, the cloth would be a one-time purchase
the cloth backdrop requires being kept clean
easier to pull the seamless out a long way and run it curving down onto the floor and under your subject for, um, more seamless look, especially with a white ...

Of the "big two" for photography, muslin is often desirable for transport and storage because you can fold it up nice and easy, toss it in a bag, and it's lighter in weight. It's also less expensive, a prime consideration for the more frugal shooter. On the other hand it wrinkles, but that's also a positive for texture purposes, and it's also easily smoothed ...

Lens selection is largely irrelevant for this task since the end result will be fairly low-resolution, any mid length fixed (prime) or zoom lens should be fine so long as it gets everything in. Certainly both the proposed lenses will be good enough.
In this situation just about every other factor apart from the body & lens is actually what's important ...

White clothes are a great go-to color for a bright colored background. This will put skintones into a color saturation middle-ground. With dark/black clothes our brains sort-of disqualify it from our impression of saturation. So that would leave the person's face and hair looking dull and neutral in contrast, which in turn puts too much emphasis on the ...

A soft box is a means of diffusing light. You can use one with flashes or constant output lamps, but you still need multiple lights positioned around the box to provide good light from multiple directions. The idea is just that the light hits the box and then the walls of the box act as the diffused light source that lights the object.
If budget is a ...

I have been playing with these 2 options myself - so far I do find that the seamless paper is the better option, I find the canvas is a real pain to keep clean. However paper is heavy to keep around, bulky and needs replacing.
I also found lighting the paper easier - possibly my canvas wasn't opaque enough?

It's not impossible, just unnecessarily difficult. We're not shooting slide film in 8x10 view cameras anymore; we live in a digital world. Getting the glitter, or at least one part of the glitter at a time, is relatively easy with a small light source. Getting the overall picture of the product is pretty easy as well, as these things go. If you're on a ...

Consider getting that YN-560 off-camera, Strobist-style, and onto a stand with an umbrella as your diffuser (any smaller diffuser may not be as soft as you'd like). Bouncing loses you a stop or two of light, and you need everything you can get. You'd need a stand, swivel, and umbrella, and some way to trigger the flash, but the YN-560 has built-in optical ...

Flash Yongnuo YN560 - Tripod...
... Then we have some lights from the top that I directed to the
background
Your picture shows orange tint in some places. I suspect that the flash and the other lights have different color temperature. If that's the case, you should get some gel filters (e.g. from Rosco) to get the temperature of the flash to the ...

Probably the best investment you could make at this point would be a decent tripod and adjustable head. Anytime possible and convenient, a picture should be taken with a tripod.
Your initial picture appears to have a tan tint to it, and the tan color shows up on the pants as well. Its tough to tell if it truly is that color, but my guess is it is not. ...

For black and white, I use paper from Savage. It comes in rolls and you can hang it on a background stand (anything high with a crossbar or shower-curtain bar. The key, as one of the other posters said, is lighting.
For white, you need the background to be a stop to 1.5 stops brighter than the subject. So get some background lights.
For black, just the ...